Insurgent Alliance … assemble?
For the primary time, Marvel and Star Wars are becoming a member of forces for a crossover comedian guide collection. The businesses simply introduced that they may merge for Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles, a five-part collection that may debut subsequent 12 months in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the unique Star Wars movie.
The all-star collection has an all-star inventive workforce, too. It’s being written by Clerks director Kevin Smith and illustrated by Uncanny X-Maless David Marquez.
The primary wave of preview artwork options the mixed forces of Marvel and Star Wars, like Darth Vader teaming up with Physician Doom, and Han Solo standing aspect by aspect with Wolverine.
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In fact, Marvel and Star Wars have a relationship courting again to the very first movie. Marvel launched the primary Star Wars comedian in 1977; it lasted for 107 points and resulted in 1986. (The corporate additionally tailored The Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi to comics as properly.) After Marvel misplaced the Star Wars license. Darkish Horse revealed comics based mostly on the property for a few years. However after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, Star Wars books returned to Marvel, the place they’ve been revealed nearly each single month for over a decade now.
None of these comics featured Marvel and Star Wars characters, interacting although — though there has been a Marvel crossover with Star Trek earlier than. These two properties met within the Nineties when Paramount had a cope with Marvel within the mid-Nineties. The corporate launched a one-shot the place the X-Males encountered the unique Star Trek crew, and a sequel the place they partnered with The Subsequent Technology forged. There was additionally a Star Trek/X-Males novel known as Planet X revealed in 1998.
Chatting with StarWars.com, right here’s what Smith needed to say about scripting this distinctive collection
Again within the early 80’s, I had a subscription to Marvel’s Star Wars comics. And as enjoyable because it was to observe the persevering with adventures of Luke, Leia, and Han, I all the time wished that Spider-Man or Physician Doom might cross over into their cinematic saga. So when the chance arose to really inform that story, no one needed to Drive my hand! I’m ecstatic to be writing Hope Assembles for the fiftieth anniversary of Star Wars!
Right here is how Marvel formally describes the plot of the Hope Assembles miniseries:
The collection follows Marvel heroes as they see the occasions of Star Wars unfolding on Earth and earlier than their very eyes, after a spell shatters actuality. The Avengers, Spider-Man, and extra will workforce up with heroes like Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, whereas Physician Doom will align himself with the likes of Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire.
The primary challenge of Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles hits retailer cabinets in January of 2027.
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